Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on sporting director Txiki Begiristan leaving the club at the end of the season
Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
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00:00What will you and the club lose with Chiqui going at the end of the year?
00:03And are you looking forward to working with Hugo Valladares?
00:09Well, a part of me is living, I would say.
00:12So a friend of mine, one of the, I would say the architect,
00:15to create one of the best teams ever from Barcelona at that time and now here.
00:21A friend of mine and yeah, I knew the decision for a long time,
00:25you know, for the family reasons, personal reasons.
00:29I know how grateful he is for this experience here.
00:33Personally, it will be a miss, but of course, it will be a miss a lot,
00:39but for the confidence, for the trust, especially in the bad moments,
00:43because he made me incredible balance in my job because I'm so energetic.
00:48When they're going bad, I want to destroy everything and all the time said,
00:52see you tomorrow, take a coffee and his balance to, you know,
00:57to be completely crazy in another one.
00:59He's both helped me a lot in my period in Barcelona and of course here.
01:05But I had the opinion that the club is so solid, incredible well structured
01:12and like has to be like that in all the families.
01:15We have to move on and the club will move on.
01:17About Chiqui again, he has been here 12 years now.
01:20You're in your ninth year.
01:24Is it fair to say that neither of you expected to be here so long?
01:28And apart from the weather, what's made you stay?
01:33You're right.
01:34You are completely right in the spec, but it happened because we won a lot.
01:39Otherwise, my chairman adored me, but he would have sacked me if the result was not good.
01:44He would have sacked me if the result was not good.
01:47So the relations, whatever happens is there, will be there.
01:52But it had been long because we won a lot.
01:55There's no secrets here.
01:57It doesn't matter where you were born.
01:59If you don't win your position, everyone asks you, you know, to be sacked.
02:05And if you win and have success, the people support you.
02:08So it's not much, I would say, complicated than that.